I mean, obviously you disagree, or you wouldn’t be here

All I’m saying is that telling someone to “fuck off with that shit” is going to draw mod attention when there’s a civility rule in place. There’s pretty much nowhere on earth that telling someone to fuck off with that shit is considered friendly.

Yes, there are times it’s justified, but pretending that it isn’t also uncivil is sophistry at best. It doesn’t even matter if someone else starts it, once a slap fight is on, it’s on and anyone joining in is contributing to the problem.

Did you report the other user’s comments? Because that’s the first step we’re supposed to take. Then the second is walking away. Now, again, I agree that sometimes you can’t just walk away. If you scroll back far enough in my user history, you’ll find a recent-ish situation where I tore into a transphobic asshole and was even less civil than anything you said.

I wasn’t walking away, and I was definitely justified. But I’m not going to pretend I wasn’t breaking a civility rule in the process, and if I’d gotten banned, I’d have been just fine with it because sometimes that’s the price you pay. You accept that as part and parcel of protest and resistance because that’s how it works. Hell, it’s part of the point. If you can’t take the heat of your own choices, you’re making bad choices.